Ridiculous Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie So the other day I was in the shower NOT THAT WE KNOW WHAT NAKED IS and the phrase "Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie" came to my mind
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Eli: What are you doing tomorrow morning? Skylar: I have a meeting that I'm leading. Eli: That sounds like a rap lyric. Skylar: Huh? Eli: You have a
The Siblings How To Get Through Winter As you know, this is The Year of Creativity for me. You can tell because of all of my artistic face tattoos. It's been a really good focus for me for 2017. I've immersed myself in more writing and Strangervilling
The Siblings The World of Babysitting I have a special treat for you today for a lot of reasons. So a few months ago I wrote that thing about how I was watching Ollie and Duncan
Podcast Episodes Episode 22: The World of Babysitting This time in Strangerville, babysitters share their worst nightmares. An aunt and a niece recount a series of unfortunate events on bath night. A teenage girl has to call in law enforcement to help scare a problem child. And a young mom learns what
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I have a work thing out of town tomorrow so I dropped Duncan off at Matt's house this afternoon. Ollie was taking his 9-hour nap on Matt'
EMBARRASSING When Your Brain Turns Off As you are aware, Skylar is a smart person. Like, I think he might actually be a genius [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2017/07/medical-school.html]. Sometimes I think that
Ollie Eleven Eleven We know Duncan was born sometime around the beginning of November, but we don't know the exact date. I explained to him recently that his biological mother didn&
Ridiculous Two Adults Came To My Door So the other day I posted that thing about how I ain't much for book learnin' and I told you how I'm trying to read
Ridiculous It's A Classic! When I was in high school I read nearly zero books and I've been feeling guilty about this for mumble mumble cough years. So guilty that if I
The Siblings Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I have a work thing this week in Chicago, or as Bob and Cathie like to call it "DON'T GET MURDERED." I'm staying with
Airbnb Personal Assistant: Apply Now One of the reasons you shouldn't be friends with me is I will turn you into my personal assistant. Look. It's not like the job doesn't pay. It pays exceptionally well. Not money. No. It doesn't
Ridiculous Escape Room Jolyn's birthday is next week so we decided to have a birthday thing for her. Skylar found what the kids are calling an Escape Room and signed up
Grandma Christine I have this monthly ritual with G-Mac. I go pick her up and drive her to my parents' house where we have dinner and gossip about all of the
Bob and Cathie The World of Spooks For a long time I have thought about how TV shows from our childhood (I'm assuming every single one of you is exactly my age) are so different
Podcast Episodes Episode 21: The World of Spooks This time in Strangerville, four stories about exaggerated fear. College kids cause a stir in their small town. A child remembers a gas station encounter much more colorfully than his father. A bunch of 80s and 90s kids discuss a traumatizing episode of a
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I woke up this morning to an angry email from Brianne demanding to know "why the hell" I hadn't shared with you all the story of
Ridiculous Candy From Strangers I got home from work around 5:30 and it was nice out so Duncan and I went for our evening walk. We like to go to the college campus
Emily The Worst Movie Ever Made So last night Anna, Emily, Skylar, and I decided that since it was one of the final "good" weekends of the year in Salt Lake City, we would
Lynn Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Tonight Lynne called me to see if I wanted to walk over to a city council debate between a few of the candidates in our area. I wasn't
Ridiculous A Celestial Being to Brighten Your Day Last week I stopped by Adam's house largely because of the celestial being who lives there. I'm not talking about Teddy, who is still to this
Ridiculous Lantern Festival About a month ago my neighbor, Lynne, texted me and asked whether I wanted to go to something called "lantern festival" with her. I said yes because the
Emma Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions You guys! Look! I Pictured and Distracted! I almost forgot how to do this! The last time we had one of these posts they hadn't even invented electricity
Airbnb Return of the DoTerra I really thought my essential oils deal was going to be a two-part series. I should have known better when I entitled the last post on the topic "Essential
Ridiculous Yearbooks Last week I posted about Stranger's tenth birthday [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2017/09/a-decade-later.html] (OMG Eli no way how is that possible you look so young
